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Rabbinic Interns

Rabbinic Interns

Under Rabbi Schlosberg's leadership, the GRJC is proud to welcome rabbinic interns to our community each year.  We are delighted that this creates a strong connection between the GRJC and the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), a preeminent institution of higher Jewish learning in New York City where our interns study.  Our rabbinic internship program also creates a win-win relationship: the GRJC benefits from the fresh perspectives offered by our interns and the intern benefits by learning in a synagogue atmosphere under the mentorship of an experienced rabbinic leader.
 
In the past, our interns have led services and programs such as our Mishpacha Minyan, Torah on Tap, Tot Shabbat, teen/youth programs and Shabbat services.  Interns also have the opportunity to shadow the rabbi during lifecyle events such as b'nei mitzvah, baby namings and funerals/shiva minyanim and gain skills around communication, publicity, chaplaincy and community organizing.
 
Thank you to the Lapkin Foundation and JTS's Resnick internship program, sponsors of this program.  We are proud of our rabbinic interns and know that they will continue to do great things for the Jewish people in the future.
 
Stefanie Gedan
GRJC's 2021-2022 Rabbinic Intern
 
Stefanie Gedan is a fourth-year rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary.  Originally from Minneapolis, Stefanie is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she earned a BA in Jewish Studies, with emphasis in modern Hebrew.  Prior to entering rabbinical school, Stefanie studied for a year at Yeshivat Hadar, an egalitarian yeshiva on the Upper West Side of New York.
 
In 2020, Stefanie commissioned as an officer in the United States Navy and will serve as an active duty chaplain upon ordination.  She has been serving as the rabbinic intern at Adath Jeshurun Congregation in Minneapolis and is the student rabbi at the Fitzgerald Hebrew Congregation in southern Georgia.
 
Stefanie enjoys reading medieval fantasy, watching political dramas and developing her Disney and Torah class.
 
 
Shani Abramowitz
GRJC's 2019-2021 Rabbinic Intern
 
Shani is a fifth-year rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City, where she is also pursuing a Master's degree in Bible.  Originally from the Chicago suburbs, Shani is a former J Street organizer and spent the last year working at the New Israel Fund as the Elissa Froman Social Justice Fellow and Rabbinic Intern.  Shani attended Brandeis University, where she studied English Literature and Psychology.  After college, Shani spent a year studying at Yeshivat Hadar, an egalitarian yeshiva on the Upper West Side of New York.  Shani loves all things reading and knitting, and is currently working on an original collection of poetry inspired by the Mishnah.
 
 
 
 
Sam Hollander
GRJC's 2018-2019 Rabbinic Intern
 
Rabbi Sam Hollander joined Temple Sinai in Dresher, PA in July 2019. He was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City in May 2019, where he also received a Masters in Jewish Education from the William Davidson School of Education. During his studies at JTS, Rabbi Hollander served as rabbinic intern at the Glen Rock Jewish Center (Glen Rock, NJ), Congregation Beth El (South Orange, NJ), and Temple Sholom (Greenwich, CT). For two years, he worked as the youth and family program director at Ansche Chesed (New York City). Additionally, Rabbi Hollander was a hospital chaplain intern at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Originally from Cherry Hill, NJ, he graduated magna cum laude from Rutgers University, majoring in Psychology and Jewish Studies.  Before beginning his rabbinic studies at the JTS, Rabbi Hollander studied for a year in Jerusalem at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Passionate about immersive Jewish experiences, Rabbi Hollander has worked for both Camp Ramah in the Poconos and Ramah Israel Seminar. He has completed a Master’s Concentration in Israel Education with the iCenter and was an AIPAC Leffell Israel Fellow.
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